Side Dishes
Fresh Tomato Salad with Lemon and Basil
This fresh salad is a summer tomato celebration. Find as many varieties and sizes of tomatoes as you can. It’s a salad dressed with lemon zest, basil and olive oil, but not with vinegar or lemon juice as tomatoes have plenty natural acidity. Adding some more will only make the juices run and give a sharp taste to the finished dish.
FRIED AUBERGINES WITH GARLIC, CHILLI AND MINT
Slices of Zucchini could be used as opposed to the aubergine. Both are delicious.
The aubergines are hot, sweet, salty and sour, and are light and refreshing.
Garden-fresh Layered Salad
Use whatever fresh vegetables are on hand for this great salad, which harks back to salads of my youth that my dad would make for our lunch on weekends. He always topped our salads with quartered hard boiled eggs and serves the salad with sweet mayonnaise. You can make this salad for a festive occasion like Christmas, keeping to the red and green colours. However, you can use your imagination and add anything you wish. I like to dress vegetables that won’t wilt as the salad is layered, but ensure you offer extra...
Grapefruit Salad
Fresh and simple is always best for a salad. if you want an amazingly refreshign side dish, this one is hard to beat.
